Posts Tagged ‘c2e2’

Oh snap, something has gone terribly wrong with this comic. The Gnome King has taken control, and now everything is upside down. We’re going to find out just how bad it’s gotten…next week. This week, I’m attending C2E2 as a guest. I’ll be running the Reading with Pictures booth (#211) over by the DC Comics booth. I’ll also be putting on panels throughout the weekend:

Description:
Come learn about how getting comics in the classroom can be fun and educational. There will be live read-alongs of our favorite stories from the Harvey-Award nominated anthology, sessions teaching kids how to draw their favorite characters, and much more! Hosted by Reading with Pictures Marketing Director Trevor Mueller, and Eisner-Award winning contributor Gabriel Bautisa. Come join us for this engaging panel that’s fun for all ages!

Reading with Pictures will be appearing at C2E2 in Chicago, Il, April 13-15. Contributors Russell Lissau and Trevor Mueller will be running booth #211 (near DC Comics), and will have copies of the two-time Harvey Award-nominated anthology available for sale.

They will also be selling copies of their personal all-ages work, including Strawberry Shortcake and Albert the Alien.

There will be celebrity guest signings throughout the weekend at the booth, as well as some big announcements about the future of RWP. Be sure to stop by the table to see who is signing and when.

Additionally, RWP will be putting on the following panels throughout the weekend:

Description:
Find out how YOU can help get comics into schools and get schools into comics in this informational seminar hosted by some of the biggest names in the world of comics and education. Join Josh Elder of Reading With Pictures and several educational professionals as they unveil their plans for 2012 and beyond.

Description:
Come learn about how getting comics in the classroom can be fun and educational. There will be live read-alongs of our favorite stories from the Harvey-Award nominated anthology, sessions teaching kids how to draw their favorite characters, and much more! Hosted by Reading with Pictures Marketing Director Trevor Mueller, and Eisner-Award winning contributor Gabriel Bautisa. Come join us for this engaging panel that’s fun for all ages!

Description:
Josh Elder, Founder and President of Reading With Pictures, leads a panel of experienced educators and librarians in presenting a series of best practices for getting the most out of the graphic novels in your classroom or library. The expert panel will be sharing their proven strategies and answering audience questions and concerns.

Albert the Alien has been sent off to the printers and should be printing as I write this post. The proofs came back excellent, with only a few tweaks needing to be made – mostly errors I caught on my end, with some of the activity pages needing an answer key and the like.

You know, when you yourself have difficulty figuring out the answers to a puzzle you created, there’s an issue. Don’t want any frustrated readers out there not able to find the solution to the puzzle.

Anyway, it’s a waiting game now. Books should arrive next week, just in time to premiere at C2E2. The waiting always makes me nervous, but I’m looking forward to getting the new books and showing them off to the world. Going to be a great book, and a great show to premiere them at.

Started putting together all of the work for my April shows already, and decided I would put together a showing of the books in one consolidated place. All of these fine books will be available for purchase at my various conventions throughout the year (see sidebar on the right with the full convention list).

NEW THIS YEAR:@$$hole! Volume 1: No Pants Tuesday:
Ever had a roommate from hell? Well, Trevor has that – literally! His demonic roommate, Susie, only wants to watch TV, be lazy, and capture the souls of every human on the planet. Is it possible for these two to live together, or will their adventures result in one of their untimely demises? Nominated for multiple awards, this tongue-in-cheek series is full of hilarious pop-culture references, kleptomaniac gnome kings, and adolescent humor.
Written and illustrated by Trevor Mueller

Albert the Alien is Using the Hall Pass:
The foreign exchange student from another planet is back! This time, Albert has to use the bathroom, but the school bully has other plans. Can Albert subdue the bully, avoid the hall monitors, and make it to the rest room before the end of class?
Includes the full adventure, a copy of the script, character designs by the artist, several activity pages, and so much more!
Written by Trevor Mueller, Art by Eisner-winner Gabriel Bautista

RETURNING BEST-SELLERS:@$$hole!: Laura’s 21st Birthday:
The story of a slacker so lazy he forgets his girlfriends birthday. Now with the help of his demonic roommate, Susie, he must overcome his fear of shopping to find her the perfect gift to make up for his failings. And where does their adventure take them, but to the most horrific place on the planet: the mall!
Written and illustrated by Trevor Mueller

Junkyard Chase:
When a puppy sneaks into the local scrapyard, it’s up to robo-security to escort them out. However, junkyards can be a very dangerous place – even for the robots who work there. Can robo-security perform their duty and get the puppy to safety? In the vein of a Wylie Coyote cartoon, this comic is a fun adventure appropriate for all ages. Also includes a script and the page layouts, so creators can see how a comic is made.
Written by Trevor Mueller, Art by Jeong Mo Yang

Reading with Pictures Volume 1:
Collecting 37 all-ages stories from award-winning talent like Jill Thompson, Raina Telgemeire, Fred Van Lente, and many more. This collection is perfect for educators, parents, or kids who love reading! This anthology benefits the RWP non-profit, working to get comics in the classroom and features the first appearance of Albert the Alien! Bored by learning about dinosaurs in a textbook, Albert wisks his class back in time where the teacher is promptly stolen by a pterosaurs. Can Albert save the teacher and get his class back to the present before they all get in trouble?

Hope: The Hero Initiative:
The only anthology benefiting the Hero Initiative non-profit, which gives money to out of work comic creators. 28 stories in all from many talented comic professionals. My story in the anthology is called “Inspiration,” and is about a boy who has been diagnosed with cancer and has been blogging about his experiences. During a “bad day,” he receives a series of comments on his blog from dedicated readers, telling stories about how this boys battle with cancer has inspired them to be real-life heroes.

Sorry it’s a little late (I was updating blogs about making comics, fer goodness sake), but finally here’s the entry about C2E2.

THURSDAY:
After a long hard day at the office, I headed home to meet my friends at the apartment. As always I provided dinner for the guests, and had a great assortment of friends: Joe Dun and Phil Chan (www.digitalpimponline.com), Russell Lissau (Batman Strikes, Shrek), Steve Wallace (Binary Love), and Alan Evans (www.rivalangels.com). After a long night of catching up and hanging out, we all went to bed to get ready for the long weekend ahead.

FRIDAY
Steve and I had to run to the post office to get some items that had been shipped but not delivered. We didn’t have any problems getting them – but the post office was in the other direction from the show. However, only a little bit after the show started, we arrived and started to set up the table. Professional hours were from 10am-1pm, and so it was a good chance to walk around and say hi to familiar faces, meet some new creators, and chat with editors. However, after the pro hours ended it was time to sell.

And sell we did.

Junkyard Chase sold very well, especially when paired with Reading with Pictures. Steve and I were table mates and had a great time. Positioned in the same isle as many of the top DC all-ages creators, so there were plenty of people who liked what we had to buy. The new banner made it’s premiere and met with positive response.

After a strong day of sales the group went out to one of my favorite sushi restaurants in town, called Niu. Everyone had a great time, and after we went back to my place for much needed rest.

SATURDAY
An early morning and a strong sales day. Steve and I were on fire all day, and with only a few Reading with Pictures panels to keep me away from the table, most of it was able to be spent meeting and mingling with friends and fans. As a bonus, my girlfriend Beth was in attendance and she got to tour the show with some of her friends, and eventually even hung out at the table with Steve and I.

After another long day at the show, the group went out to a local burger joint in my neighborhood, and then went back to my place to hang out and enjoy our last night of the weekend.

SUNDAY
Sunday morning we all went to a local breakfast hub, and then headed off to the show. It was kind of a slow day for me sales wise, but still a fun time. Eventually everyone left the show, Alan being kind enough to take Phil and Joe to the airport. All in all it was a great weekend, spent with amazing friends. Looking forward to the next show.

The comics have been updating on time, I’ve just been swamped playing host to the greatest group of friends in the world. This past weekend was C2E2, and I had Russell Lissau, Joe Dunn, Phil Chan, Steve Wallace, and the brother’s Heinowski staying with me for the event. It was a fun time, and great to get to hang out with my comic friends.

And entire weekend of geeking out with your best buds is fantastic…but also exhausting.

I plan to do a convention review soon (once I finish compiling pictures from everyone), so be on the look out. In the meantime, be sure to check out last week’s @$$hole! pages as well as today’s Temple page.

So a lot’s been going on in my world lately, and sadly I’m not able to get into details on many of the items, but there’s good news and bad news.

The bad news is that I find myself back in the job pool, hunting for work and finding an agency where my skills and experience can be utilized to their fullest. Unfortunately I can’t get into further details on this (and those who know me know that I love to rant), but for now I try to see this as a blessing in disguise. Namely, because I may have time to start reviewing movies and games again.

The good news is that I went out and bought a new laptop. Since the computer that I had been using was a work laptop (and a Mac at that, which kept crashing any Microsoft programs that I had to run every day), upon trying to turn on my old personal laptop I came to the conclusion that it was just too old and too slow for the purposes that I needed it.

The new device is father sleek, fast, and efficient. In fact, it’s technically better than my desktop computer – which is 7+ years old and I never sign it on the internet anymore. Mostly because if I ever did, it would shut down and never work again. There’s just not enough space on it for any more Windows updates, and since it’s not going online it doesn’t really need any updates.

So last week Friday another @$$hole! uploaded, continuing the adventure of Carl trying to stop the evil Michael Eisner. And today a new Temple story went live, where we see Seymour (who we know is not a fighter) getting into a scrape with some Bishops in the Capital City market streets.

This week I’m prepping for C2E2, and I’ll talk a bit more later this week about my convention exclusive print (to promote my story in the upcoming Reading with Pictures anthology), as well as my signings and panel schedule. Then next month I’ll be a guest of honor at ACEN, which is one of the most fun shows that I go to every year! Gonna be a blast!

SATURDAY:
RWP Iron Artists Tournament
6-8 pm, variant stage
Watch nearly a dozen of your favorite artists compete head-to-head on stage in the ultimate speed-drawing contest! The audience (That’s YOU!) decides what the artists have to draw, and then our judges decide who drew it best. For in the end, there can be only one… Iron Artist! ARTISTS: Jill Thompson, Jeffrey Brown, Raina Telgemeier, Aaron
Reiner, Dirk Tiede, John Bivens, Jen Brazas, Brion Foulke, Gabe Bautista, Joe Dunn, and John Gallagher with more to come! Brought to you by Reading With Pictures: a non profit organization that advocates the use of comics in the classroom to promote literacy and improve educational outcomes for all students.

SUNDAY:
MAIL ORDER NINJA LIVE!
11:30 am, variant stage
Join “Mail Order Ninja” creator Josh Elder and the rest of the Reading With Pictures team as they bring the award-winning story of a boy and his ninja to life on stage. And be sure to stick around for an exclusive C2E2 preview of the next all-new “Mail Order Ninja” story. Performed by Josh Elder, Trevor Mueller, Steve Wallace, Katie Doland and Russell
Lissau.

SMILE…LIVE!
2-3 pm, variant stage
We take our smiles for granted, but Raina Telgemeier had to earn hers. Join Raina and the Reading With Pictures players as they bring her heartwarming and hilarious story to life on stage. And be sure to stick around for an exclusive preview of Raina’s next project. PERFORMERS: Raina Telgemeier, Dave Roman, Josh Elder, Trevor Mueller, Katie
Doland and Russell Lissau.

READING WITH PICTURES READ-ALONG
3:30-4:30 pm, variant stage
For the first time ANYWHERE, see an exclusive preview of the forthcoming all-ages anthology “Reading With Pictures” that benefits efforts to bring comics into the classroom. Then watch as the creators come together on stage to bring their certified awesome stories to life. Performed by Josh Elder, Trevor Mueller, Katie Doland, Russell Lissau,
Steve Wallace, Michael Moreci and Raina Telgemeier.

Hey gang, enjoying the new website so far? A few more changes are coming as well, but so far it’s pretty awesome. Today’s @$$hole! features my convention appearance schedule for this year. Be sure to attend these shows and look me up.